Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water (2000)

Just reading that album name makes me feel grimy. Do I really want to sit through more than an hour of music by a band named Limp Bizkit? Just in case you aren't aware, and I'm going to blank this out for the people who don't want to know, the band gets it's name from a game frat boys supposedly make pledges play. The pledges stand in a circle and attempt to jerk off onto a biscuit. Whoever is the last to ejaculate has to eat the biscuit. If you want to read those last 2 sentences feel free to highlight them, but I recommend you don't. Remain unaware until your dying days. And no, I'm not making it up.

Aimee Mann - Whatever (1993)

Aimee Mann has been given a ripe opportunity to impress me. Coming off the grinding noisefest of Psychocandy I'm desperate for music with a modicrum of substance. I'm pretty sure I don't know any Aimee Mann music, but I'll probably wind up recognizing something seeing as how she was active while I was an impressionable youth.

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (1985)

The Isley Brothers - 3 + 3 (1973)

I suppose it's just as racist as assuming Terrence Trent D'arby's music was hip-hop/rap to assume that The Isley Brothers, who released the above album in 1973, will be playing funk. Maybe I'm just really hopeful.

Earth, Wind, & Fire - That's The Way Of The World (1975)

Roni Size & Reprazent - New Forms (1997)

Daft Punk - Homework (1997)

Now here's an interesting album. You know who Daft Punk is, or at least you know that one song they played that got so huge it won them a Grammy for album of the year a couple years back. But this isn't that Daft Punk. This is the Daft Punk that existed a dozen years earlier in France before anyone in America cared. I think this is even before they started wearing robot costumes on stage. So back in the old days were they the same Euro-trash techno duo I know today? I really hope the answer is no.

Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of... (1992)

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (1974)

Recently my younger brother got seriously into Steely Dan and begged me to listen to everything they'd ever done. I told him I'd get around to it sometime, but I can't just skip ahead every time someone suggested I absolutely had to listen to something. I skip around in my list often enough on my own. If I kept jumping ahead to things I wanted to listen to I'll never get to the crap that everyone would agree doesn't belong.

N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton (1988)

I am now about to witness the strength of street knowledge, brought to me by some guy who thought "Ice Cube" was a badass name and lots of cheesy dated drum tracks. Nope, can't fuck with that! The knowledge he imparts has something to do with how he's a badass and some people are pussie niggas and some women are bitches. And damn that shit is DOPE! I am impressed with Ice Cube's ability to rhyme "product" with "narcotics." I already feel like I've been listening for an hour, but really it's been 3 minutes, and there's still 57 to go.